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After riding high on the global success of Netflix’s prison drama “Black Warrant,” Indian actor Rahul Bhat is set to present his Hollywood debut “Lost & Found in Kumbh” at the Cannes Film Market.

The appearance marks his third connection to the festival, following his lead roles in Anurag Kashyap’s “Ugly” and “Kennedy”.

The dramedy, produced by Los Angeles-based Mulberry Films and directed by Mayur Puri in his feature debut, will host an teaser drop on May 18 at the Bharat Pavilion in Cannes, giving international buyers their first glimpse at what Bhat describes as a refreshing departure from his usual intense roles.

“For a change, somebody offered me a dramedy,” Bhat tells Variety. “All the time, people were only giving me these dark, very serious, violent roles. So I thought, okay, let me do something interesting in English.”

The film centers on a professor from London who travels to...

Iconic actor Danny Trejo is set to receive one of the biggest honors of his career.

The star of Machete, From Dusk Til Dawn, Spy Kids, Con Air, Heat, and hundreds of other films and television series will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Santa Fe Film Festival on Thursday, the festival’s opening night. His new film, American Underdog, will hold its U.S. premiere at Sfff that night, kicking off the event that runs in New Mexico’s capital city from April 25-28.

“Danny Trejo has developed a prolific career in the entertainment industry with a hard earned and atypical road to success,” the festival notes. “From years of imprisonment to helping troubled youth battle drug addictions, from acting to producing, and now on to restaurant ventures, Trejo’s name, face, and achievements are well recognized in Hollywood and beyond, but it is his continuous...

Production has wrapped on the wartime coming-of-age feature film “The Collaborator,” based on the international bestseller by Kashmiri novelist Mirza Waheed.

The story is set in the 1990s on the Indian side of the Line of Control that separates Indian Kashmir from Pakistani Kashmir. The 17-year old protagonist known only as the “Boy” is forced by an Indian army captain to go into the valley that separates the two countries to count the army’s kills by collecting IDs off the dead. Most of these are teenage boys who have disappeared from his small village, and any one could be among his missing friends.

The novel was named as one of the 2011 books of the year in The Telegraph U.K., New Statesman, Business Standard and Telegraph India. It was also a 2011 Guardian first book award finalist.

The U.K.’s Rudi Dharmalingam stars in the role of Captain Kadian alongside newcomer Nikhil Singh Rai,...

Exclusive: Danny Trejo (Machete) and Veronica Falcón (Ozark) have boarded American Underdog, an indie drama set in the world of Mma that is now in production in Chicago. The film, marking the feature directorial debut of Peruvian-American filmmaker Gustavo Martin, will also star Vishy Ayyar and Andrew Gray.

Pic’s protagonist is Jai (Ayyar), an ex-con on a soulful path wrestling with personal redemption when outside circumstances pit him in the ring against the fierce opponent, Marcus (Gray). Trejo portrays Dennis, who reluctantly comes out of retirement to train his former student, while Falcón steps into the role of Marcella, a local gym owner and community legend shepherding Jai in his return to fighting.

A production of Peach Partners, in association with Mulberry Films, and MxW Ventures, American Underdog will also star Suleka Mathew (Your Honor), Taylor Treadwell (Big Little Lies), Omi Vaidya (3 Idiots), Ranjita Chakravarty (Never Have I Ever...

Cinedigm, an independent content distributor and digital platform operator, has acquired North American rights to cross-cultural holiday drama “A New Christmas.” The film will have its world premiere at the Heartland International Film Festival on Oct. 13.

Cinedigm plans to release it in North American cinemas, on digital and on demand in December.

“A New Christmas” is written by Travis Hodgkins and directed by Daniel Tenenbaum (“Landing Up”).

Indo-American actor Prashantt Guptha (“The Tashkent Files”) stars as a lonely medical student in New York, estranged from his wife. He meets a charming woman from Africa, played by Grace Wacuka (“Before and After”) who persuades him to show her the city’s Christmas decorations, thereby leading him to rediscover the magic of the season and get his life back on track.

The film is produced by U.S. entities Savi Creations (“Tu”) and Mulberry Films (“The Last Laugh”), in association with Besties Make Movies...

For its 22nd year, Dances With Films returns to Los Angeles this June with an eclectic lineup of films both feature-length and short-form that span a wide range of genres.

Dances With Films 2019 will take place June 13th–23rd at the Tcl Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Horror fans attending the festival will want to keep an eye out for several genre-centric titles, including Come, Said the Night (pictured above).

You can check out the Dances With Films 2019 lineup below, and to learn more, visit the film festival's official website.

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Writer/Dir: Michael Worth

Prods: Jody Marriott Bar-Lev, Dustin Rikert, Avi Bar-Lev, Michael Worth

Cast: Rance Howard, Michael Worth, Esther Anderson, Clint Howard, Adrienne Barbeau, Robby Benson

Prince McCoy has found himself almost to the middle of age, and definitely to the end of his rope. Losing his home,...

Actor Prashantt Guptha has been cast as the lead in possibly one of the first Christmas movies that will star an ethnic actor. And this is a dream come true for the now Mumbai based actor, as he is originally from New York.

Prashantt has earlier done prominent roles in Bollywood features and has just returned to Mumbai from the Big Apple after completing the movie and is supremely elated on his Hollywood debut. When asked about how this breakthrough is significant, Prashantt replied, ?Having grown up in New York, Christmas has always been my favourite holiday. This is one major step forward toward a lifetime dream of wanting to work in both Indian movies and Hollywood.?

The film revolves around a first-generation Indian American who overcomes inner turmoil when a tourist girl from Africa rekindles his spirit during Christmas. Produced by Los Angeles based Mulberry Films, A New Christmas...

It was the trailer and music launch of the much awaited film Rang Rasiya and it turned out to be one of the most memorable event for the media. On this occasion Producer Anand Mahendroo and Deepa Sahi, Director Ketan Mehta and Presenter Jayantilal Gada were present. The cast of the film with actor Randeep Hooda playing the protagonist, and his three supporting ladies, actresses Trupta Parashar, Ferena Wazir and Rachna Shah made the event distinctly glitzy.

Also present were melody maestros Sonu Nigam, Kailash Kher, Roopkumar Rathod, Sunidhi Chauhan, Rajeshwari Pathak and Anwarbhai (King of Rajasthani Folk) with his team.

Staying true to the title of the film, Rang Rasiya music launched filled the evening was music and literature that colored the senses. Live performances by Sunidhi Chauhan and Roopkumar Rathod who did a duet with ‘Chaliya’, and Anwar Purkshis who came together with Kailash Kher and turned on...

Peter Webber ("Girl with a Pearl Earring," "Hannibal Rising") has signed on to direct a film adaptation of Daniel Mason's acclaimed historical novel "The Piano Tuner". Pre-production begins later this year.

Set in 1886 at the height of the British Empire, it follows a piano tuner who receives a strange request by the British War Office to deliver a rare grand piano to a legendary British Officer in the remote jungles of northeast Burma.

Gopi Sait, Sunaman Sood, Daria Jovicic and Rashaana Shah will produce.

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Exclusive: Set to go into pre-production later this year, the film is based on Daniel Mason’s acclaimed historical novel.

Peter Webber has signed on to direct The Piano Tuner.

Based on Daniel Mason’s acclaimed historical novel, the film will be produced by Mulberry Films partners Gopi Sait, Sunaman Sood and Rashaana Shah with Latitude Media’s Daria Jovicic.

Set in 1886, it follows a piano tuner who receives a strange request by the British War Office to deliver a rare grand piano to a legendary British Officer in the remot jungles of northeast Burma.

Webber commented: “Daria and I previously worked together on Girl with a Pearl Earring, and as a fan of Daniel Mason’s novel The Piano Tuner, I was delighted when she approached me and asked if I would direct a movie based on his book.

“The story has a distinct contemporary relevance as an early example of the globalising world we still...

Chris Kattan's three-part comedy musical miniseries, Bollywood Hero which also features Neha Dhupia, Rachna Shah and Pooja Kumar, based on a Dutch movie of the same name, begins its first broadcast today. The premise is a simple one - an actor, whose once promising career is beginning to fade into cameo and walk-on comedy parts, seeks to restart it by starring in a Bollywood movie called Peculiar Dancing Boy. "Chris Kattan wanting to be a leading man is a joke, and it's a great way to poke fun of myself," says Kattan, 38. "It's not so much about finding a gig but good, respectful gigs."

Chris sees the parallels all too readily with his own career adding a certain poignancy to the whole series where the lines between fantasy and reality become blurred in a way that would please the maestro, Gary Shandling. "My dream was to be more like Mike Myers,...

This could qualify as a full-blown miracle.

On Tuesday a melody miracle happened when Lata Mangeshkar who will be 80 this year walked into young composer Mayuresh Pai’s studio and recorded the entire Hanuman Chalisa in four hours flat. An endeavor that has taken other far younger singers days, if not weeks to complete.

And that too after undergoing major knee surgery just two months ago.

The nightingale’s niece and a singer in her own right Rachna Shah says, “She had gone only to rehearse and not record the Hanuman Chalisa. But we don’t know what happened. Within half.

Talented Rachna Shah has carved her niche in the world of art and serious cinema. With the release of Kal kisne dekh hai this Friday she will attain a new recognition. “Yana’s character was challenging for me for two reasons. Firstly I don’t identify with her and secondly I had to perform many stunts in the film”, she briefs.

After Kkdh, she will storm the Bollywood with her next flick Rang Rasiya. In this film she is playing a girl who is in love with a painter, which is being played by Randeep Hooda. Subsequently, the stunning actress will be seen in Bengali movie which will be releasing.

Rachna Shah is quite a name nowadays. After playing the role of Kamini, I Rang Rasiya, who is the muse to the paintings of Raja Ravi Verma, she will now be seen doing some serious action in her next film, Kal Kisne Dekha.

“I play a negative character in the film and I do some serious action sequence beating up the heroes,” jokes Rachna. She adds, “since both of my co-stars, Jacky Bhagnani and Rahul Dev were 6 feet 2 inches and the scenes were with them, ideally I should have done all my action scenes on a patla (stand). Even if I really wanted to beat them up, I wouldn’t have reached.